Open Academic Publishing

Open Academic Publishing: what it is, what it could become and why that matters.

We will be exploring open publishing in this online research seminar, covering both the fundamentals and the innovation. Free and open to all: please register here.

Lucy Barnes from Open Book Publishers will discuss how, as publishers, they have approached open access publication and also, her work with COPIM, the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project.

Dr Arianna Ciula from King’s Digital Laboratory will share her experience of integrating digital publishing with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process.

Dr Tanya Kant, University of Sussex, will share her experiences of supporting researchers with open publication through REFRAME, an open access academic digital platform for online practice, publication and curation.

Restaging Data

The Reanimating Data project is a collaboration between academics, archivists and activists interested in young women’s sexual health and empowerment. You can now watch the University of Manchester’s Women’s Theatre Society extraordinary devised / verbatim collaborative theatrical piece drawing on interview transcripts with Manchester’s drama students of the 1980s to explore experiences of sex and relationships then and now.